episode seventy | atelier 17
Published 24 November 2020
Unidentified photographer, University of Iowa printmaking studios, 1947. Pictured from left to right: Malcolm Myers, Virginia Banks, Paul Brach, Houston Chandler, Miriam Schapiro (seated). Miriam Schapiro Papers, Rutgers University Archives, New Brunswick, N.J.
episode seventy | atelier 17
In this episode Miranda speaks with Christina Weyl, who has recently published a book with Yale University Press title “The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York”. Christina is a wealth of information on twentieth-century printmaking, as well as this groundbreaking studio. We learn about how World War II was the catalyst which moved the studio from France to New York, its connections to The New School and to the Surrealists, and the famous and infamous women who came out of it: Miriam Schapiro to Louise Bourgeois. Get out your pen paper for this one, print friends.